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New IE 8
Dean Hachamovitch, manager for Internet Explorer, just announced availability of Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 immediately following the keynote. Microsoft is also releasing specifications for two features that allow developers the create experience that extend beyond a web page: Web Activities, which let users to preview related sites without leaving the page, and Web Slices, which let users track activity on a particular portion of a page, such as an ongoing auction for an item on eBay.
Both available under open source licenses, though they differ in detail.
Silverlight 2 Beta 1
No surprise, Scott Guthrie has announced the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 1, available for download today.
The significance of the new release is that it delivers a larger subset of the .NET platform as a cross-browser plug-in. Included are a WPF like framework for developing user experiences, and portions of the network and web services stack. More details to come.
Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend will support Silverlight 2 Development
Scott Guthrie has just announced the availability of preview versions of Expression and Visual Studio 2008 support for building Silverlight applications. New role: Dev-igner, someone who can bridge the gap between design and development.
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"available under open source licenses"
Is that a proper open source licence, or the sort of anti-competative 'we probably wont sue you till you compete with us' stuff they do at the moment ?
Internet Explore 8 Beta, I lost my menu, not able to defrag, text and pictures jagged, McAfee has a problem, and problems downloading...I am sorry I tried IE 8 Beta, and now it will not let me delete IE 8 Beta… Free game downloads
hi all
If they are still available, I'd love an invite to Aviary.
On a side note, you did a brilliant series on Cairngorm tutorials. You mention a 6th tutorial. Any idea when that might be available? ankara nakliyat